using patreon as a journal under the guise of an update (Patreon)

Hi patrons,

I was just adding my calendars to my shop... so lets just say they are coming soon!! DAYS!!

However, as inspired by my badtober prompt "they should put that on a t-shirt" and my recent miffy redbull design, I thought to use a third party fulfillment center to also have shirts available. I think to myself,, they do all the work and people love shirts! I set them all up, connect them to my shop, place a test order and everything. However, after placing the test order I realized the third party printers take the money from my card to fulfill the order, and I thus get all the money from the sale on my shop. Of course, this makes sense financially, but I am uncomfortable with the idea of a transaction being done on my card, before I actually am able to transfer the funds from my shop to said card. Does this make sense?

I could add a balance to my third party account, so it just draws from that, and I can also control when my card is charged... But I am imagining it being a lot of scheduling and additional transfers on my end to ensure I can always have balance to fulfill the transactions from the third party and approve the orders and all this..

So then I thought to limit the amount of shirts people can order.. and I want them to be nice quality so they're like $45 *crying emoji* and I get like... $10 profit. So I made a 200 count limit.. then I had to decide how much of EACH SIZE I should sell!! And even then I would have to make my third party balance like $7000.... It is just scaring me..

And all of this on top of selling my calendars!!

So maybe I am too afraid to sell shirts right now and I'll save that for later. Or maybe I just do one design.?? But I want to do my miffy design but that's literally two trademarked IPs in one image so that also scares me. Maybe its a no go.. But my shirt designs are so cute!! Maybe I'll get them printed somewhere local and in just one larger size.

So then I was so productive and in the end I didn't even really do one full thing. My heart is sad.

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In a perhaps hopeful turn of events: There's no rush. The calendars will only arrive in like a month so I can just sort it out in the mean time. And I did order miffy bumper stickers as well so that's much easier. Perhaps it will be a calendar and sticker shop update.

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And a final update: IM GIVING UP ON BADTOBER!!! I'm too busy... but only 5 days left??? My heart will determine what occurs... Also I'll upload all my new entries here soon!

Just needed to voice this so my efforts didn't go unseen...gad